8
2011
Alannah Rose Party – Wrap Me In Rainbows {The Party}
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Well here we are back from a lovely weekend and a fantastic and fun rainbow party!
Alannah had an amazing time, she was so happy the entire day, and I thought I’d share the pics with you.
Keeping with our our rainbow theme and inspired by the book ‘You, Me and the Rainbow’ I introduced a heart element into the invitation design as well as some of the design elements in keeping with the rainbow ritual in the book ‘sending a rainbow from my heart to yours’.
We were both really excited about this theme, it was so much fun to work on. 
Above: Our new ‘wrap me in rainbows’ party invitations created especially for this party; Miss Alannah loving every bit of her 6th Birthday; ‘wrap me in rainbows’ party hats
Above: Rainbow party hats – Alannah loves party hats, so these were a special request from her, now available as a printable party file;
Favours – guests were given ‘Cookie Love’ take home rainbow gingerbread hearts; The kids party table – one of my favourite things and a fabulous find that I used for this party were the garlands – you can’t see much of them in the pics, but I strung them all over the roof, mainly in white, with some bulk colour for the rainbows. These were not actually garlands, but strings of wool! Yes wool, it’s called snowball and you can purchase it in 25 metre lengths in a multitude of colours from Lincraft or Spotlight for around $3.50. A bargain!
Above: The Sweets and Candy Table – The hanging cloud with rainbow hearts was purchased from etsy seller The Rainbow Room, Clara very kindly adjusted the design to have hearts rather than rain drops for me; The Cake - I first saw the rainbow cake over at my lovely friends Hip Hooray, for instructions to make head on over to Whisk Kid. For our version I wanted Alannah to be involved – she finger knitted the wool decoration to wrap around the cake, and chose the unicorn on top out of selection of few cake toppers I found on etsy – this one came from the very talented Bunny with a Toolbelt. The number six was purchased from spotlight and I glued some printable paper with spray adhesive to the front so it would tie in with the other stationery pieces.
Above: The food - as we were having an afternoon party I didn’t want to make too many different dishes for the dessert bar, so we went with cupcakes – topped with the rounded tip of a candy cane, rainbow bark – white chocolate with crushed candy cane on top, heart shaped fairy bread – always a favourite, and rainbow striped gingerbread hearts – these took a fair bit of time to make, but I’m super pleased with the outcome even if I do say so myself! An assortment of coloured lollies were also added included smarties, jelly beans and twizzlers – rainbow coloured licorice!
Above: More sweet treats; Drink bottles – were dressed up with printable drink labels in our wrap me in rainbows theme
Above: The rainbow cake – it worked! It really is simple to make, and very effective – the papparazzi were in force!; Sweet Treats – I printed up little treat bags and filled with candy for guests to take home
Above: More Gifts - I couldn’t resist making up these little personalised pocket mirrors to match the invitations. The poem on the hessian bag was ironed on with t-shirt transfer.
Entertainment - I wanted to sit back and enjoy the party this time around so I organised for Stephanie from Fairy Flutterby to entertain the guests. Stephanie is a fantastic entertainer and talented face painter. She kept the girls laughing with a magic show, dancing, games, facepainting and balloon sculpting – what more could you ask for! I highly recommend her.
More Details:
Stationery - All of the stationery items used in this party are now available for purchase through Alannah Rose as printable party files, you can view our ‘wrap me in rainbows’ printable party invitations and matching items here. So if you’re wanting to replicate this look, you can simply purchase the files and print off the paper pieces at home.
Twizzlers - from Sugar Station
Ribbon Cake stands from Tracey Lau
Rainbow Candy Cane - Big W
Cake Supplies – Wests
Rainbow Twine – The Twinery
Finally – A very special thank you to my mum, my husband, my two gorgeous girls that make me smile every day, my lovely friend Kerrin, and the mums that helped me on the day.
And finally to Amy Atlas who featured our little party on her blog today with the sweetest words – I’m so flattered! – I’m ever inspired by Amy’s work, and thrilled that she has featured one of our party’s again.
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March 8th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Ohh yay Suzi! The party looks fabulous & the cake turned out perfect! And you got the Twizzlers!
Looks like Alannah had a wonderful day! My little ones Ladybug party is this weekend (finally) will let you know how it goes! This is awesome, again ! Well done Suzi! xx
March 9th, 2011 at 10:59 am
W-O-W, Suzi! We so adore seeing your parties – every detail so perfectly executed, but even more special is how they are each woven with such love for your girls. Your inspiration for this party is very heartwarming and we are sure, that party hats and (amazing) rainbow cakes aside, it is the rainbow ritual and how it translated to her party that Alannah will be telling her own children about. Absolutely beautiful.
March 9th, 2011 at 11:21 am
You created a stunning party, Suzi! Congrats on the Amy Atlas feature!
March 20th, 2011 at 7:32 am
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March 20th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Another truly gorgeous party for one of your gorgeous girls! I am always inspired by your blog, in particular the children’s party posts and I wait with anticipation to see what you are going to come up with next!
March 23rd, 2011 at 10:19 am
thanks so much lovely ladies and sorry for the late reply! my gorgeous admin has just found all my comments in the spam filter! Mental note for me – check the spam filters more regularly! xx
March 29th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Rainbow inspiration. You are amazing. How did you make those pocket mirrors?
April 7th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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February 28th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Where did you get the stripey drinking straws from? I’ve seen them on lots of American blogs, but can’t seem to find them in any Australian stores!
February 28th, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Hi Alicia, I think quite a few of the Party stores sell them, try Twiggi, or Sharnel Dollar Designs.
October 11th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Can you please tell me how you iced the heart shape cookies? they look very ‘clean’.